bobCAT. in collaboration with Brandon Shigeta have been awarded an Honorable Mention Prize in this year’s AIA Atlanta Young Architect’s Forum 48 hour competition. The project was to submit a proposal to re-imagine “The Gulch” in Atlanta. The bobCAT./ Shigeta proposal imagined a new civic park that would incrementally grow over time. The park, using the parking stalls as a unit of conversion from hardscape to soft, would increase proportionally as reliance on public transportation becomes more significant. Judges Comments: “Incremental revitalization at the scale of the parking space seems somehow hopelessly romantic but, on the other hand, hopeful that a community could reconfigure its landscape without the heavy hand of the bulldozer and the mega project.” For more information on the proposal and the competition go to: